Various meals.
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Soup.
Solidified High-gelatin chicken stock, water, oil, baby carrots [Silverthorn Farm], celery stems (de-stringed) & leaves, young Lion's Mane mushrooms [Shamrock Farm], vermicelli [Ziyad brand].
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Chinese take-out.
Hot & Sour Soup, with deep-fried wonton strips.
Quite good, actually. Lots of quality stuff in it; taste was pretty accurate, white pepper heat (correct, for this style of the soup), decently sour.
Pan-fried noodles w/ shrimp, beef, chicken. By request, swapping out just "seafood" for the triple combo.
A bit on the salty side but otherwise fine.
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Baby kai-lan [Viet Hua] w/ oyster sauce.
Blanched in oiled simmering water, drained, dressed with oyster sauce [LKK] & white pepper.
Chicken w/ basil & eggplants.
Chicken leg quarters, chopped up, marinated w/ Shaohsing wine, hon-mirin [Takara], fish sauce, white & back pepper, some oil. Hot pan, hot oil, sliced garlic, the marinated chicken, sliced baby eggplants (Japanese/Chinese long-type, small ones; mottled purple-white, white, purple varieties) [Compean & Son]; the marinade, sweet basil (from my deck), seasoning adjusted.
Several bowls of white rice.
Cherries.
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